As I was putting the finishing touches to the manuscript, I learned that my close friend Pierce Loughran, who had helped so much in the creation of both The Hidden Man and The Spanish Game, had died suddenly. He was 36. Pierce was a man of great kindness and astonishing erudition, and I was lucky to know him. He will be greatly missed.
C.C.
London, October 2005
Charles Cumming
Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He is the author of the bestselling thrillers A Spy by Nature and The Hidden Man. The Spanish Game in his third novel. He lives in London.
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